Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

The moment of truth is the moment of crisis.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

It seemed the most important thing in my life at this moment that she should know the real truth about me.

For example, philosopher John D. Kenyon writes: Reason might manage to raise a doubt about the truth of a conclusion of natural inductive inference just for a moment in the study, but the forces of nature will soon overcome that artificial skepticism, and the sheer agreeableness of animal faith will protect us from excessive caution and sterile suspension of belief.

He considered that truth was the product of history and that it passed through various moments, including the moment of error ; error and negativity are part of the development of truth.

And perhaps in this is the whole difference ; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.

This has been described as " the moment of truth " in the post – World War II division of Europe.

I do not deny for a moment that the truth of God has reached others through other channels-indeed, I hope and pray that it has.

It was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ... In this idea originated the plan of the ' Lyrical Ballads '; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

" One never had the feeling he was ' acting ' in a scene ," said his four-time co-star Joan Bennett, " but the truth of the situation was actually happening, spontaneously, at the moment he spoke his lines.

In July 1947, Stalin ordered these countries to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme, which has been described as " the moment of truth " in the post – World War II division of Europe.

At the Azores conference of 16 March, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and Spanish prime minister José María Aznar announced the imminent deadline of 17 March for complete Iraqi compliance, with statements such as " Tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world ".

Victimized by his blackmail, Elizabeth agrees to marry Jason, but at the last moment reveals the truth.

After an unsuccessful attempt to make peace with his wife, Lord Windermere summons the courage to tell the truth to her, but at that moment Mrs Erlynne arrives at the party, where she is greeted coldly by Lady Windermere, spoiling his plan.

Some service managers use the term " moment of truth " to indicate that defining point in a specific service encounter where interactions are most intense.

President Bush calls Monday, March 17, the " moment of truth ", meaning that the " coalition of the willing " would make its final effort to extract a resolution from the U. N. Security Council that would give Iraq an ultimatum to disarm immediately or to be disarmed by force.

This " new global space " constitutes postmodernity's " moment of truth ".

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Larry's trademark behaviors are his probing stare when he doesn't think somebody is telling the truth, fondly saying something is " prett-ay, prett-ay, prett-ay, pretty good " and, when caught up short in a moment of poor or contrary behavior, quizzically and mock-innocently inquiring, often of his wife, Cheryl, or of a close friend, " No good?

He placed the bread and cheese at the same moment in the mouth of the accused, and, on doing so, recited the conjuration: ' I exorcize thee, most unclean dragon, ancient serpent, dark night, by the word of truth, and the sign of light, by our Lord Jesus Christ, the immaculate Lamb generated by the Most High, that bread and cheese may not pass thy gullet and throat, but that thou mayest tremble like and thou mayest tremble like an aspen-leaf, Amen ; and not have rest, O man, until thou dost vomit it forth with blood, if thou hast committed aught in the matter of the aforesaid theft.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

He'd landed the plane on a small airstrip in Connecticut and as soon as the aircraft had coasted to a stop, everyone had burst into chatter at the same moment.

* " I foresee a universal information system ( UIS ), which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact.

The Great Entrance of the Divine Liturgy commemorates the " Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem ", so the meaningfulness of this moment is punctuated on Palm Sunday as everyone stands, holding their branches and lit candles.

At the end of the ceremony, everyone in the park held hands and sang " Auld Lang Syne " to Williams, a moment which he later said " moved me quite a bit ".

I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness.

In modern times an epiphany lies behind the title of William Burroughs ' Naked Lunch, a drug-influenced state, as Burroughs explained, " a frozen moment when everyone sees what is at the end of the fork.

For a moment, Hud feels the emptiness of his life, which he has created by driving everyone who loved him away.

Waugh speaks of his belief in grace in a letter to Lady Mary Lygon: " I believe that everyone in his ( or her ) life has the moment when he is open to Divine Grace.

" The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

" He added: " Forty years after the saddest moment in Olympic history-when eleven Israeli athletes and sports officials and a German police officer were killed by Palestinian terrorists-it would have been an excellent opportunity to show to everyone that the sports world stands united against terrorism ... Nobody wants to ' politicize ' the Olympic Games, as the IOC seems to suggest, but Baron Rogge and his colleagues on the IOC Executive have utterly failed-or refused-to grasp the importance of such a symbolic act.

Adam Phillips suggests that ' the radical nature of Freud's project is clear if one imagines what it would be like to live in a world in which everyone was able-had the capacity-to free-associate, to say whatever came into their mind at any given moment ... like a collage '.

The Círio is the regarded as the " Christmas of the Amazon " because it is a moment of congregation in which everyone is involved in the arrangements to receive the saint, in an atmosphere of fraternity with people becoming more sympathetic and happier.

At the moment in which I report all this, everyone is on the run ; I am no more master of my troops.

In the same volume Joel Latner stated that Gestalt therapy is built upon two central ideas: that the most helpful focus of psychotherapy is the experiential present moment, and that everyone is caught in webs of relationships ; thus, it is only possible to know ourselves against the background of our relationship to the other.

Note also the spell which caused this also prevented aging, and took effect on everyone in Oz at the same time ; this means that any babies in Oz are eternally babies, and that anyone who was at the moment of death is permanently caught there, and so on.

The ball hit a pole and landed right in the " doghouse ," a feature unbeknownst to everyone then until that moment ; it was used to store numbers for the manually run scoreboard.

And at this very moment, just four weeks before Christmas, with everyone connected to the music and relevant retail industries already lying prone in paroxysms of unimaginable delight, EMI pulled the trigger and released ' I Want To Hold Your Hand '.

: At this time, when everyone was enjoying the fiesta, when everyone was already dancing, when everyone was already singing, when song was linked to song and the songs roared like waves, in that precise moment the Spaniards determined to kill people.

It is sly, cruel, and to a large extent undocumented, and it has, I think, shocked everyone who knows what sort of person Shawn really is [...],” and Shawn's hand-delivered letter to Whitney, sent Thursday before publication on April 11, 1965, read “ To be technical for a moment, I think that Tom Wolfe's article on The New Yorker is false and libelous.

What I need at that moment is to know that you care enough about me and the work I do to tell me that you loved it, not " in spite of its flaws ", not " even though everyone else seems to have a problem with it ", but simply, plainly, " I loved it.

We got caught up in the moment, just like everyone else.